Excel 365 layout change

[KillerOfGiants]

Hello,

Our office has 365. One of my comrades, just today, when he started using excel, the visible layout changed.
His no longer has the green accent bar at the top (or at the side when you click file).
Additionally, his tabs now look like individual buttons.

We cannot figure out how to change it back (if it can). Nor do we understand his changed and mine did not.

 

[Alex Blakenburg]

The buttons look fine to me, you would need to show me yours using the "same" spreadsheet.
The green accent bar sounds like the he has his theme set to white and you have it set to colorful.
Compare the setting below your setting with theirs.

 

[KillerOfGiants]

They didn't used to be buttons. They have changed. There is now a gap between tab names, thus making the tabs list at the bottom longer. The lack of a green accent bar is disheartening as it helps differentiate from other open windows when I don't have it open to maximum size and now blends in with everything else. (Mine just switched and I had a pop up about the new MS 365 themes). There is no section that allows the look to revert to the previous settings.

 

[Alex Blakenburg]

You seem to be comparing machines but have not show how the other machine looks.
My machine's tab setting look the same as what you are showing (assuming you applied a colour to your tabs)
I am running: Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2405 Build 16.0.17628.20006) 64 bit on Windows 11.
Also did you try changing the Theme to colorful per my post #2 ? Did that not bring the Green accent bar back ?

 

[KillerOfGiants]

I found an image online that shows the old view. I did a snip it of the new view.
The green accent at the top is different.
The tabs at the bottom now have a "gap" (therefore taking up more space, which when a workbook has a number of tabs means that not all the tabs might be visible at once).
Even the scroll bars to the right and at the bottom are different (rounded and shaded).

Yes, I have tried the themes. My theme before it changed was set to Use system setting. That is the same setting after the change. None of the themes revert back to the original look.

 

[Alex Blakenburg]

I don't think you will be able to change the new Sheet Tab styling or the Scroll bar look but you can get the Green back on the Title bar by changing your setting to Colorful as I have mentioned in 2 of the posts above.
You can do this at the Excel Level through options or at the Office Level through Account.

You can read more of that here make sure you expand the 1st 2 FAQs to see the details:

The new look of Office - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com